Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/10/2014 10:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 14:34:43 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: It's pretty damn sad that a 'certain' type of new users join this list, and the first post they see from me is one of my rare tough love posts such as in this thread. And even

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
of it used in that context. Now that it was explained to me, I understand his intent. His tone & delivery, however, was about as smooth as a porcupine wearing 80 grit sandpaper underwear. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.c

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
s myself and the other user, no one has the right to complain about my style. But the fact is, many are complaining, whining like a bunch of children. "Mommy! Mommy! The bully at school called another kid a nub! Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa!" This is absolutely ridiculous behavior, and it'

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/09/2014 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/03/14 11:15, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 03/09/2014 06:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 mar 14, 01:39:56, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: Really, calling the OP a "nub" ( whatever the hell he means by that

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/09/2014 09:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Really, calling the OP a "nub" ( whatever the hell he means by that) isn't an insult? "nub", short for newbie, i.e. new user. And no, it is not an insult. Lisi A

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
ed Linux, or that you've never participated in a technical forum. Please tell us your Linux skill level so we can reply with appropriate level of instruction. Kind regards, Andrei Really, calling the OP a "nub" ( whatever the hell he means by that) isn't an insult? A

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
perform other common tasks. He may not even know that much. In fact, given he assumes everyone knows why he's punching the function keys, it's pretty certain he's a nub. And that's fine. But we need to know his knowledge level in order to best assist him. -- --- Dave

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
with appropriate level of > instruction. > Based upon your reply, I can guess that you are not a paid customer service professional. First thing is to not sound like a snot to those you're trying to help. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - ht

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/07/2014 02:33 PM, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:36 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 03/07/2014 12:33 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Hello Dave, I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword f

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
e to a kdbx file, but I didn't bother because KeePassX looked better on screen anyway. Thanks all. Looks like KeePassX would do the trick. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst -

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 03/07/2014 12:33 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Hello Dave, I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword for me; really I just want a well encrypted "document"/diary that is cross platform... How a

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
eychains, etc... What I would like to know is: is there an option that will work on Windows, OSX, and Linux? Something where I can keep it on a USB flash drive? I'm not looking for something to insert the passsword for me; really I just want a well encrypted "document"/diary t

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
other *BSD variants does more? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "Computers have lots of memory but no imaginat

Re: NSA into Debian distribution!

2014-02-13 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
I saw yesterday: It's a scientific FACT: Online comment trolls are SADISTS • The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/study_shoes_that_online_comment_trolls_are_sadists/ -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.or

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/11/2014 10:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/11/2014 9:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Your

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
o you reasonably think more RAM will help. You add a third which BIOS sees all of, yet the OS doesn't. Turns out memtest shows errors on one of the modules. Replace that and all is well. And yes, your new module could be faulty. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ C

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 02/10/2014 03:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
perly. Both Stan and Efraim have good comments. I suggest you follow them. Jerry Have you run memtest yet? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 06:51 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/6/14, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some service crapping o

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some service crapping out. I don't think it's hardware, because I was just using 2 different ex

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:56 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:55 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm guessing there is some service that is crapping out. anything in /var/log/syslog ?? Nah, nothing obvious. May have missed something. Got any ideas what to look for ? -- ---

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing there is

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 10:38 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Nah, no difference noticed. But I did catch one oddity. Today when /snip/ I was booting up, I had the trackball connected to the USB port (that has the power connector next to it) and while it was loading the

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/04/2014 06:16 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:31 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: That's the odd thing. All I did was install XFCE, then noticed the trackball working at the login greeter. Logged in to XFCE, Cinnamon, and now back in to Gnome like I want, and it works every

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 08:23 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:20 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Installing Mate & XFCE right now to test. I must say, I am surprised that no one else has chimed in with any suggestions as to how to get my USB mouse or trackball working... Well,

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I adde

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I added the Linux Mint Debian Edition repositories t

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-31 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 07:58 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:49 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Partly ideological; I don't like the way things seems to be heading. Canonical's way or F-Off. Got moderated on the Ubuntu user's list for voicing/agreeing with opinions that

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:33 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not c

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
**Apologies, meant to bring this back to this list On 12/30/2013 04:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:21 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Del

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not change BIOS settings. Only install Debian stable.

USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
lights up. But nothing else Hints? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "Computers have lots of memory but

Re: Upgraded apache 2.2 -> 2.4 and cannot get passwords to work

2013-12-28 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
and how was it setup? Plain Debian Wheezy, or Ubuntu-fied Debian? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "Computers h

Re: nautilus -> spacefm

2013-12-10 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
expect other file managers to also support these things. Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was... http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Sup